Property from a Private Collection, Switzerland
Wassily Kandinsky
Pointillé
Auction Closed
February 8, 06:44 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, Switzerland
Wassily Kandinsky
1866 - 1944
Pointillé
signed with the monogram and dated 35 (lower left); titled, dated 1935 and numbered No 559 (on the verso of the mount)
gouache on black paper on the artist’s mount
sheet: 48.2 by 33.7 cm. 19 by 13 ¼ in.
mount: 56.5 by 41.9 cm. 22 ¼ by 16 ½ in.
Executed in 1935.
J. B Neumann, New York (acquired in November 1935 and until at least November 1939)
Nierendorf Gallery, New York (acquired by July 1942)
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (acquired from the above in 1945)
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 20 October 1971, lot 55 (consigned by the above)
Jerome L. Greene, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Jewish Museum, New York (acquired as a gift from the estate of the above and deaccessioned in 2000)
Farsettiarte, Prato, 26 May 2001
Farsettiarte, Prato, 1 December 2007, lot 721
Private Collection
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 17 June 2022, lot 84 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
The artist’s handlist v 1935, no. 559
Wassily Kandinsky, “Toile vide, etc.,” Cahiers d’art, nos. 5-6, 1935, p. 118, illustrated
Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours, Catalogue Raisonné 1922-44, vol. II, Ithaca, 1994, no. 1188, p. 412, illustrated
Paris, Cahiers d'Art, Kandinsky: peintures de toutes les époques, aquarelles et dessins, 1935
The Art Institute of Chicago, International Water Color Exhibition, 1936, no. 120 (titled Pointille No. 559)
Boston, The Institute of Modern Art, Contemporary German Art, 1939, no. 24, illustrated
Cortina d'Ampezzo, Prato and Milan, Farsettiarte, Soutine, Kisling, Utrillo e la Parigi di Montparnasse, 2003-04, no. 22, illustrated